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BY CYRUS GARDE
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
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BACOLOD City – A misunderstanding worsened by an old grudge led to the fatal shooting of a 36-year-old man during a dance in Barangay 5, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, police said.
Mar John Tortosa, a resident of Barangay Onolingan, Moises Padilla, was hit in the head. He died on the spot, said Senior Inspector Allan Reloj, municipal police chief.
An allegedly drunken and unruly Tortosa and Jade Escover, 36, had an argument at the dance hall near the public market around 10:30 p.m., Reloj said. After which, Escover fired at Tortosa using a homemade .45 firearm.
Reloj said they later learned the two had an old grudge.
Police arrested Escover and seized from him the firearm loaded with seven bullets.
Two empty shells of a .45 firearm were found at the crime scene./PN
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